The NSA has been hacked and the hackers are releasing some of their malware tools for free and auctioning others for bitcoin.

in #security8 years ago

An unknown hacker or a group of hackers just claimed to have hacked into "Equation Group" -- a cyber-attack group allegedly associated with the United States intelligence organization NSA -- and dumped a bunch of its hacking tools (malware, private exploits, and hacking tools) online.
I know, it is really hard to believe, but some cybersecurity experts who have been examining the leak data, exploits and hacking tools, believe it to be legitimate.

Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hacking-tools.html

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/765210977625370624

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wikileaks WikiLeaks tweeted @ 15 Aug 2016 - 15:38 UTC

186Mb archive of apparent NSA malware released: mega.nz/#!zEAU1AQL!oWJ... password=theequationgroup More info: github.com/theshadowbroke...

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